US President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order that would enhance the country’s ability to target terrorists and those who finance their activities, as well as identify, sanction and deter perpetrators of terrorism worldwide. Utilising the new order, issued on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary on Tuesday, the Treasury sanctioned over two […]
Pakistan has “failed to significantly limit” militant outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) from fundraising and recruiting while several terrorist groups that focus on attacks outside the country continued to operate from its soil in 2018, a damning U.S. report has said. The U.S. State Department, in its Congressional mandated annual Country […]
“When I was a teenager, my uncles tried to teach me to walk like a man, my classmates would call me chhakka (slur word for gay),” says Tashi Tsheten, a 26-year old lab technician who leads one of Bhutan’s most prominent LGBTIQ groups, Rainbow Bhutan. The Himalayan Kingdom has never punished homosexuality, he explains, but […]
